The Romantically Impaired Prufrock T.S. Eliot's "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" depicts the complexity of the modern age. Eliot, himself justified the complexity by arguing that the poet, who is to serve as the interpreter and critic of a complex age, must write complex poetry. And certainly we would all agree that the 20th century was a complex age(Martin 423). J. Alfred Prufrock is no Hamlet. He is a hopeless romantic at best, …showed first 75 words of 805 total…

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